Absolutely amazing day out in Brooklyn today! Stopped by a fellow collector who is selling part of his collection and came home with a very rare Marusan "cream belly" Gorosaurus figure: my first Toho vintage figure in years and one I've wanted for a very long time.
Buuuuuut, that's not all. The seller mentioned he had a box of Ultraman monsters I could go through, all with unattached tags. I was shocked beyond shocked to see that a good 80% of the toys I had been looking for were in this box, everyone from Seagorath and King Crab to Alien Vira and all the Ultraman Great monsters. Unbelievable score.
Now that I think about it, it probably can be said that those Science Patrol communicators were the predecessor idea for the Star Trek The Next Generation communicator uniform pins. They didn't extend any antennae, just did the hand contact over the plate facing to talk with other Star Fleet people in the show.
on the way (in 23cm scale...why this odd scale and not 25?...I don’t get it :dunno: Oh well, no biggie), they are slowly starting to win me over with their products. Finally, Marmit/Gigabrain and Marusan have made next to zilch in their 8-10 inch figure lines over the past year that has been worth a crap (and Bandai completely abandoned their 8 inch line years ago). In contrast, X-plus can’t seem to churn these suckers out fast enough (I really think they should slow it down a tad...they’re expensive and it would give collectors some relief), so I thought it was kind of silly for me to not at least give this line some consideration, despite past reservations I had about them. Since I pride myself on my rag tag collection, as long as a figure fills a need/void in my collection, I don’t care who makes it. Anyways, here it goes:
